/tags/kkk KKK en-US Copyright Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-03-20/as-it-was-kkk-makes-weird-appearance-in-port-orford-ore In the spring of 1924, rumors began to fly that a Ku Klux Klan organization was being organized in Curry County, Ore.On Sunday, April 29, between 8 and 9… Wed, 20 Mar 2019 07:01:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2019-03-20/as-it-was-kkk-makes-weird-appearance-in-port-orford-ore Laurel Gerkman /show/as-it-was/2015-07-23/fighting-editor-takes-on-political-machine-and-the-kkk The Oregon Encyclopedia calls George Putnam, who purchased the Medford Tribune in 1907, the “epitome of the fighting editor.” He took on Jackson County’s… Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:28:00 GMT /show/as-it-was/2015-07-23/fighting-editor-takes-on-political-machine-and-the-kkk Kernan Turner